On the 12-16th November LGL volunteer coordinator Gabija Morkūnaitė and board member Elena Dapkūnaitė took part in the international seminar „Back to the Future II“ in Turin (Italy) that was organized under the Erasmus+ programme. During the seminar the participants from 13 different countries shared their experiences of working with the European Voluntary Service (EVS)
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To ensure continuity and consistency of organization‘s work, national LGBT* rights organization LGL held a strategic planning session, attended by LGL staff, board members, and volunteers on October 18th, 2014 in Vilnius. Considering the changes of social, cultural and political context in which organization carries out its activities, the main challenges and guidelines were discussed
Last Friday, October 10th, The Association LGL hosted a delegation from Dutch political party “Democrats 66”. The Dutch politicians, who ranged from just beginners to seasoned politicians, visited LGL to learn about the situation of politics and human rights in Lithuania. Hans Hindriks, the leader of the delegation, volunteered in Vilnius a couple of years
On October 1-5, LGL hosted in Vilnius the fourth meeting of the QuPiD project, which revolved around the topic of legal and policy implications on LGBT*IQ adult education. QuPiD, Queer Paths into Diversity is an international project aiming at the cooperation of organizations fighting the discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The project
Last Friday, national LGBT* rights organization LGL received an exclusive invitation from the Ambassador of Ireland to his residence for an official reception for human rights activists. David Noonan, the new ambassador, was received by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė only a few weeks ago. One of his first objectives was to show support for LGBT*
National LGBT* rights organization LGL organized an international conference “Tackling Homophobic and Transphobic Bullying: Challenges and Effective Responses”, which took place in Vilnius on October 2, 2014. The presentations on homophobic and transphobic bullying were given by a team of international experts: Marinus Schouten (GALE – the Global Alliance for LGBT* Education, the Netherlands), Michael Barron
The invisibility of the legal problems of transgender people in Lithuania inspired national LGBT* rights organization LGL and organization “Transgender Europe” (TGEU) to hold a series of public events “Being Trans* in Europe – Attitudes, Perspectives and Challenges” on the 27th-28th of August 2014 at the premises of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
From July 28 to August 1 the Cross-regional Strategy Forum for LGBT leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia took place at the Robert F. Kennedy Training Institute for Justice and Human Rights in Florence, Italy. The event was attended by Vladimir Simonko, representative of the national LGBT rights organization LGL. The forum
On June 28, 2014, the EuroPride March took place in Oslo, the capital of Norway. The event gathered international LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons) as well as many of their supporters. The official number of participants still has to be confirmed, but it is likely to have exceeded last year’s participation to the
On the 28th of June around 20 thousands of LGBT*IQ activists and supporters from around the world were marching the streets of Oslo in the occasion of EuroPride 2014
From June 2 to 8, the Baltic Pride 2014 took place in Tallinn and Tartu in the form of a week-long festival filled with a number of events. All the workshops, performances, discussions, reading groups, exhibitions and film screenings gravitated around one main theme, STAND UP, and the slogan for the whole festival was I’ll stand
On May 30 the last event of the Rainbow Days 2014 took place in Klaipėda. The day started with a lecture on the multiple and complex relations between communities and social movements, conducted by human rights activists and LGL staff members Aliona Polujanova and Raminta Biziulevičiūtė. After the lecture, the movie Children of God was